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Why not call it photography if it is photography? Many paintings are also depictions of real things. Art is art, no matter the tools. Or are we not allowed to
by rimliu 9y ago
Why not call it photography if it is photography?
Many paintings are also depictions of real things.
Art is art, no matter the tools. Or are we not allowed to call
black and white photograpy photography, because real things have colors?
We all see the different reality anyway (think about color blind people, etc.).
The aim of the photographer is not to show the world how it is (which is not really possible), but how they see it or want you to see it.
- pmlnr 9y agoReality is different - in the heads, for certain. What I'm saying, that in my read, photography is capturing something, that, for at least a brief second, existed in the physical reality, as it was.
- igouy 9y ago> … in my read, photography is … Perhaps Photography has always included much more: "Faking it: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop" https://books.google.com/books?id=nGvTg_HC32YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22faking+it%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifvqa-rY_ZAhUKsFQKHSpBBCMQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=%22faking%20it%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=nGvTg_HC32YC&printsec=fron...